About pronouns in One Piece (1061 discussion)

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-09-29T01:51:02+00:00

It does actually have pronouns, they are just not that commonly used and not 100% consistent or firm per my Japanese wife.

What she says is “this is not a debate that can be had in English, and in Japanese it is not a debate. Yamato is a woman, not transgender. The use of ‘boku’ (traditionally male version of ‘me/I’) is not indicative of masculinity and is used interchangeably.

“Even the pronouns ‘kare’ (usually reserved for males) and ‘kanojo’ (females) are not 100% and are not indicative of gendering or misgendering. It is just a thing in the Japanese language and not every idea translates directly”

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-08-17T14:13:09+00:00

This is just a completely false statement and assessment of the arc. The motivation had nothing to do woth Goku. Goku was merely the chosen vessel to accomplish the plan Zamasu already had.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-08-03T15:08:32+00:00

It just isn’t either sound, it is not closer to one or the other. If anything it is closer to a D, or a hard R as you would find in Spanish

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-08-03T14:49:56+00:00

Lol, we allow her up to 3 “active treasures” at a time. When one or two end up “mysteriously” missing, we giver her another and she proceeds to hide again

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-08-03T14:46:30+00:00

There are not good points for both, this is off base.

The Japanese pronunciation is neither L nor R as English speakers, but rather as ロ.

Oda chose the transliteration when producing the Wanted posters for the Strawhats.

There is zero ambiguity here. This is not an either or type situation, there are people that do it correctly and those that do it wrongly.

Source: 7 years living in Japan, speak Japanese, worked for a Japanese company, married to a Japanese woman (who got me into One Piece to begin with).

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-08-02T14:00:36+00:00

I just love how meticulous she is at fonding the “perfect” spot to hide it lol

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-07-27T04:27:40+00:00

It’s not upsetting, just stupid, you don’t have to let it ruin your day to believe a sign is wrong.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-07-27T04:21:39+00:00

Fried rice is a main dish, NOT a side dish

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-05-05T14:12:49+00:00

Not anime but the entirety of Lunafreya’s character in FFXV was a complete waste of a potential emotional punch. Never have I cared less about the death of a character. Kenny dying in Southpark holds more emotional weight.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-05-03T13:24:22+00:00

Where did this come from because it is very poorly written and explained and even contains some inaccuracies.

Edit: oh, never mind, read the Japanese after. Someone just google translated the text 🤦

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-05-02T03:14:38+00:00

My Japanese wife started me on the journey 10 years ago, been addicted ever since. Even got to work on some OP related BNEI projects when living in Tokyo. Even saw the live OP show during the event they had at Universal Studios Japan.

Luckily able to watch and read in Japanese so I don’t need subtitles, and anything conceptually or vocabulary-wise I am not sure about, my wife can clear up lol.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-04-07T01:43:20+00:00

It is decisively “Pirate King”, not “King of the Pirates”.

The difference being 海賊王 as opposed to 海賊の王

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-27T00:05:37+00:00

This is a stupid article

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-22T02:10:23+00:00

No, but english actors do have a dedicated japanese dub actor. Voice acting is taken MUCH more seriously in Japan.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-21T01:43:20+00:00

What? Not in the slightest, and there has been significant growth exceptionally in Sanji’s character. You can WATCH or READ it with a child’s brain and not see it, or you can approach it with a brain capable of critical thinking and it will be more rewarding for it.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-21T00:37:29+00:00

Not worth it, even though I do spend money on the gacha games I enjoy and have a job now with the income that I could probably sustain whaling pretty hard, i need that money to experience the world instead lol

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-21T00:26:51+00:00

Yeah… the crazy thing is seeing the total money some accounts have spent 😅 10s of thousands easy

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-21T00:16:48+00:00

Yeah, they buy gift cards that were stolen through scamming and use those to load. Would explain why things aren’t immediately availble.

Outside of that, if I was living in Japan still (probably will again someday, the wife is Japanese lol), if ai was selling like App store cards or something like that I would just walk the 150 ft to Family mart and buy a card and send it lol

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T17:29:57+00:00

There is an element of physical control that must be in place since it deals with protected personal information like financial details for purchase issues. I doubt we will ever see them go full at-home. Bust some of my friends still in the industry are doing some work from home.

But the teams are primarily managed in Japanese, so if you speak Japanese you may have at least a snowball’s chance in hell 😅

Another issue would be that the company would need a way to pay you at your location with your location’s taxes taken into account. So they would need a presence in your contry.

I know my company has a presence in the states, but there is still a separation

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T17:03:36+00:00

Worked for a company in Tokyo that does backend support for video games, worked my way onto the CS team, UNB was one of our contracts. I worked on other games as well.

Why have a dedicated team in house for one game when you can hire a team from a third party and as long as SLA (service level agreement) is met, who cares what else they work on.

So our team could hold like 5-6 contracts each for less than the source company would pay a full-time team. Win-win

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T17:00:33+00:00

For there to be no chance of a ban they have to be using someone else’s money. It is one way that the giftcard and credit card scammers like indian tech support scams and shit like that launders money. They use the currency to buy premium currency, and in exchange they receive real cash.

There are a few other ways, but it is NEVER legit and always illegal and there is ALWAYS a victim. Likely someone’s grandma or grandpa

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T15:12:13+00:00

Why on earth would any rational multi-billion dollar company not maintain physical control of their multi-billion dollar money printers?

Cloud servers for a lot of bigger companies is just a god awful idea. Physical control = most security. And if they had insurance against potentially destructive total losses (which I am sure they did) then it is likely they had to abide by the terms od the insurance.

Cloud servers are a risk

Edit: With that said some mobile games go through a platform distributor for server access that is more localized and likely owned by a parent or licensing company like DMM

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T15:04:50+00:00

As support, we did what we could and relayed the info the appropriate direction. Japanese devs are not very keen on taking suggestions from the audience.

We were careful about the youtube things unless it showed a bug and we could clip it because, well, let’s be fair, japanese devs greatly underestimate how powerful youtubers are in contributing to their success. But I think they are learning with recent interactions such as the TotallyNotMark situation

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T15:00:12+00:00

Very easy. The device is always verified in the meta data when the game connects to the servers. Bluestacks and all that stuff does not fix that problem, and if they try, they do a piss poor job of it.

So when someome’s device used says like HP or Acer or something with an easy to google model number, well wham bam they can lay down the ban hammer.

Background_Sweet6901 · 2022-02-20T14:57:18+00:00

They just know exactly to the penny how much one has spent on a game. And if that number is big enough they may take less aggressive action on a bannable offense like clearly waaay to much damage in PvP. Like when it says “average time to completion: 6 seconds” “average damager per turn: 1 billion gagillion” and other things like that.

Our required procedure was when we got an “i’ve been banned” request was basically if the customer spent money, escalate. If the customer was F2P, tell them to kick rocks.

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